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A collection of manga reviewsSat, 11 Feb 2017 22:25:44 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.1121227096Simulpub Manga List – List of All Current Simulpubshttp://tsundokulife.com/2017/02/11/simulpub-manga-list-list-of-all-current-simulpubs/
http://tsundokulife.com/2017/02/11/simulpub-manga-list-list-of-all-current-simulpubs/#respondSat, 11 Feb 2017 22:22:33 +0000http://tsundokulife.com/?p=397Have you ever wanted to support the manga industry, but hate the wait between the Japanese and English release date? Check out the details about this list of manga simulpubs collected by @kpossibles below!

Hi guys, I ended up making a list of simulpub manga after getting the idea in my head after someone on /r/manga posted a list of simulpub releases for the week of February 5th. I figured that it wouldn’t be that hard since I was using a tumblr page theme that I’ll just edit the data!

The publisher list includes Viz, Kodansha, Yen Press, Crunchyroll, Mangabox, and more. It’s automatically sorted by last release date and I will be manually updating it every few days (RIP not being advanced enough to make it automatic). Feel free to comment if I missed any series!

Now it’s live!

]]>http://tsundokulife.com/2017/02/11/simulpub-manga-list-list-of-all-current-simulpubs/feed/0397Simulpub Manga and Where to Find Themhttp://tsundokulife.com/2016/12/20/simulpub-manga-and-where-to-find-them/
http://tsundokulife.com/2016/12/20/simulpub-manga-and-where-to-find-them/#respondTue, 20 Dec 2016 18:00:18 +0000http://tsundokulife.com/?p=52Finding new legal manga releases online in English is sometimes complex, since the big name publishers offer their series on various online services. Most people will pay to support their favorite artist and series though! Here’s a list of simulpub manga and where to find them~

I’m including only websites/services that offer simulpub (released on same day as Japanese or up to a week later). They are: Weekly Shonen Jump, Yen Press Digital, Kodansha Comics, Crunchyroll Manga, Manga Box, ComicWalker, and Comic Zenon International. The series that they host are listed below the cut!

Weekly Shonen Jump

$25.99 ($19.99 sale) for 12 months or $0.99 per issue. There are also several series that are published online for free if they were serialized in Shonen Jump+. The list below are weekly releases unless marked as monthly.

One Piece by Eiichiro Oda

Food Wars! (Shokugeki no Soma) by Yuki Tabata and Shun Saeki

My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) by Kohei Horikoshi

Blue Exorcist (Ao no Exorcist) by Kazue Kato*

RWBY by Shirow Miwa (Original: Rooster Teeth Productions)*

One-Punch Man by Yusuke Murata (Original: ONE)*

Seraph of the End (Owari no Seraph) by Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto, and Daisuke Furuya*

Viz

The other simulpubs for Viz are pretty limited. Most of them are offered free under the Weekly Shonen Jump label, while Platinum End is $0.99 and released monthly. This list includes some other manga that aren’t typically shonen.

Crunchyroll Manga

You need to be a Crunchyroll subscriber in order to access the manga simulpub releases. However, the subscription includes their anime simulcasts. They include Kodansha simulpub series (listed above). Update schedules on any series not listed under Kodansha are listed by week on the website and RSS Feed for past updates.

Note: Some of these haven’t been updated in 6 months but they’re still marked as ongoing series.

Silver Nina by Itokatsu

Okitenemuru by Hitori Renda

ReCollection by Ichigo Takano

Arpeggio of Blue Steel by Ark Performance

The Tenth Prism by Masahito Soda

Joshi Kausei by Ken Wakai

The Legend of Onikirimaru by Kei Kusunoki

Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou by Ruri Miyahara

Donyatsu by Yusuke Kozaki

Tales of Wedding Rings by Maybe

Aizawa-san Multiplies by Seiichi Shiki

Father and Son by Uchiko

Momokuri by Kurose

Manga Box

The latest chapters of each series is available online, otherwise the chapters are viewable on their iOS/Android app. Their selection doesn’t include anything popular, but there’s a few interesting titles and it has a lot in the seinen genre. All of their series are available for free. Updates are irregular.

ComicWalker

The English site is mostly dead? There have been updates for 2 series in the past month, and the Gundam series has been already published in English and just being re-released for free with the Japanese site. I am not sure about the future of this site, but it looks like it will die soon unless someone invests time in 2017 to vamp up the series offerings, since Kadokawa owns a majority of Yen Press, which is doing fine by itself. Updates monthly and release schedule available here (change language to English).

Ptolemy’s Singularity by Mitsuru Osaki and Gun Snark

Comic Zenon International

There are 4 simulpub series offered by Comic Zenon International (via Silent Manga Audition website). They also publish original oneshots online and host a manga competition every few months.The list below are monthly releases.

ANGEL HEART by Tsukasa Hojo

Ikusa no Ko (Child of War) – The Legend of Oda by Tetsuo Hara and Seibo Kitahara

Arte by Kei Ohkubo

Nobo and Her? by Molico Ross

And that’s it! Did I miss any series or services? Do you think that other English publishers will join into the foray of simulpub soon? And what other series do you feel would be successful as simulpubs? Personally, I think series by CLAMP and other famous mangaka would be easily sellable and if Viz would add shojo series to their simulpub offerings, that would be even more awesome

by TAKEUCHI Tomo

My first review on this blog has to be dedicated to Ballroom e Youkoso by Takeuchi Tomo, also known as Welcome to the Ballroom. I found this series during a search for new sports manga, as I wasn’t up to catching up to popular series like YowaPeda, Daiya no Ace, or Haikyuu!! at the moment. I think I fell in love with dance manga after reading Swan by Ariyoshi Kyouko when it was released by CMX in 2005 and I read it at the downtown library. However, this particular manga was nominated in the prestigious 6th and 8th Taisho Awards in 2013 and 2015, which lists the best manga series in Japan for that year.

The mangaka introduces the main character of Ballroom, Fujita Tatara, as an average student who stumbles into the world of sports dance and becomes enraptured after watching a performance by his mentor.

But what is ballroom dancing? Waltz, tango, samba, rumba, jive… various dances that get taught in Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance reality tv shows. Fujita is a complete beginner who starts off with learning the basic steps to the waltz. He advances onto other Standard and Latin dances as the series progresses and he eventually gets his own dance partner, but not without obstacles and overcoming his faults on the way there.

1, 2, 3… 1, 2, 3… 1, 2, 3… 1, 2, 3…

Things get wilder as he’s introduced to his main rival, Hyodo Kiyoharu: a dancing prodigy who is partnered with Hanaoka Shizuku (Fujita’s classmate and love interest). Fujita ends up taking his place in a dancing competition when Hyodo is missing and SOMEHOW DOESN’T FAIL! (jk it’s one of his few successes) The arcs of the series follow the training, new characters, failure, competition, and dancing development. Volume 1 and 2 build up the basis for the strong storyline on how Fujita and his fellow dancers are obsessed about ballroom dance and how it ends up taking up every part of their lives. Although the main excitement lays in the performance on the dance floor, discovering new techniques and training to perfection are part of the adventure.

The artwork is gorgeous! Takeuchi-sensei knows how to draw the curves of voluptuous dancers and the energy of a dance set. It looks like the mangaka took lots of reference photos around dance studios and ballroom competitions to get the correct atmosphere. And everything seems to be drawn with love as this is definitely a passion project~